Function

GLibstrsplit

Declaration [src]

gchar**
g_strsplit (
  const gchar* string,
  const gchar* delimiter,
  gint max_tokens
)

Description [src]

Splits a string into a maximum of max_tokens pieces, using the given delimiter. If max_tokens is reached, the remainder of string is appended to the last token.

As an example, the result of g_strsplit (":a:bc::d:", ":", -1) is an array containing the six strings “”, “a”, “bc”, “”, “d” and “”.

As a special case, the result of splitting the empty string “” is an empty array, not an array containing a single string. The reason for this special case is that being able to represent an empty array is typically more useful than consistent handling of empty elements. If you do need to represent empty elements, you’ll need to check for the empty string before calling g_strsplit().

Parameters

string

Type: const gchar*

A string to split.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

delimiter

Type: const gchar*

A string which specifies the places at which to split the string. The delimiter is not included in any of the resulting strings, unless max_tokens is reached.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

max_tokens

Type: gint

The maximum number of pieces to split string into If this is less than 1, the string is split completely.

Return value

Type: An array of utf8

A newly-allocated array of strings, freed with g_strfreev().

The array is NULL-terminated.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

Each element is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.